A simple sufficient condition for the quasiconvexity of elastic stored-energy functions in spaces which allow for cavitation

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-0973-ZMaRDI QIDQ283573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jonathan J. Bevan, Caterina Ida Zeppieri

Publication date 13 May 2016

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02622

zbMATH Keywords

affine boundary conditionelastic energyquasiconvexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20)

Abstract: In this note we formulate a sufficient condition for the quasiconvexity at $xmapstolambdax$ of certain functionals $I(u)$ which model the stored-energy of elastic materials subject to a deformation $u$. The materials we consider may cavitate, and so we impose the well-known technical condition (INV), due to M"{u}ller and Spector, on admissible deformations. Deformations obey the condition $u(x)=lambdax$ whenever $x$ belongs to the boundary of the domain initially occupied by the material. In terms of the parameters of the models, our analysis provides an explicit upper bound on those $lambda>0$ such that $I(u)geqI(u_{lambda})$ for all admissible $u$, where $u_{lambda}$ is the linear map $xmapstolambdax$ applied across the entire domain. This is the quasiconvexity condition referred to above.

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